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Zur dynamischen Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente
Unold, Wolfram - 2000
Im Mittelpunkt der vorgestellten Arbeit steht die dynamische Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Die voliegende Arbeit erstellt einen differenzierten Vergleich umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Hierzu wird die Anreizwirkung von Steuern, Subventionen, Zertifikaten und einheitlichen...
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Structure of and carbon flux through soil food webs of temperate grassland as affected by land use management
Lemanski, Kathleen - 2014
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Input Subsidy Programs and Commercial Market Development: Modeling Fertilizer Use Decisions in a Two-Channel Marketing System
Xu, Zhiying; Jayne, Thomas S.; Govereh, Jones - 2006
Many governments in developing countries distribute fertilizer at subsidized prices to stimulate fertilizer use and … agricultural productivity. However, the extent to which government fertilizer subsidy programs affect private suppliers' sales of … fertilizer is largely unknown and subject to considerable debate. This paper models farmer input use decisions in a two …
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Individual-based modeling of fish: Linking to physical models and water quality.
Rose, K.A. - 2009
The individual-based modeling approach for the simulating fish population and community dynamics is gaining popularity. Individual-based modeling has been used in many other fields, such as forest succession and astronomy. The popularity of the individual-based approach is partly a result of the...
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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values
Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008
Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436936
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Appraisal and evaluation of water supply and sanitation projects: Ghana as a case study
Akosa, George - 1990
Existing appraisal and evaluation methodologies provide for aseparate assessment of technical, financial, economic, institutional,social and environmental aspects of projects without a unifying theoryto combine these aspects into a single measure of project performance.Data Envelopment Analysis...
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Uniform and Non-Uniform Second-Best Input Taxes.
Claassen, Roger; Horan, Richard D. - 2001
We investigate second-best, input-based taxes foragricultural nonpoint pollution control when marketprices are endogenous and production isheterogeneous. Theoretically, we derive the optimalforms of taxes which take account of heterogeneity(non-uniform taxes) and a tax which does not (auniform...
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Point-Nonpoint Trading - Can It Work.
Ribaudo, Marc O.; Gottlieb, Jessica - 2011
Water quality trading between point and nonpoint sources is of great interest as an alternative to strict command and control regulations on point sources for achieving water quality goals. The expectation is that trading will reduce the costs of water quality protection, and may speed...
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Uncertainty in TMDL Models.
Shirmohammadi, A.; Chaubey, I.; Harmel, R.D.; Bosch, D.D.; … - 2006
Although the U.S. Congress established the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program in the original Clean Water Act of 1972, Section 303(d), it did not receive attention until the 1990s. Currently, two methods are available for tracking pollution in the environment and assessing the effectiveness...
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